New Delhi: A man, who murdered his 16-year-old daughter for seeking to marry against his wishes and tried to hide the crime by filing a missing person complaint, was arrested in Delhi, police said on Sunday.
Liyaqat Ali, a motor mechanic, smothered his daughter to death on the night of May 15 while she was sleeping in her house at Mehrauli area in south Delhi. He later dumped her body in a drain.
Police said that after this Ali, 55, went to his native place at Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr and lodged a missing complaint about her daughter. A few days back, Delhi Police recovered the body of the girl.
"When the father was questioned, he broke down and told us that he killed his daughter as she wanted to marry against his wishes," said a police officer....
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05:23 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Los Angeles: Late pop star Michael Jackson's daughter Paris is reportedly not fond of singer Justin Bieber as he didn't speak up when teenaged girls slit their wrists to express their love for him. Sources reveal Paris, who is currently at UCLA Medical Center after slitting her wrist with a knife and consuming 20 Motrin, thinks Bieber is a terrible role model for young girls, reports tmz.com. She reportedly got...
01:27 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday sentenced a man to jail for eight years for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone. Pronouncing the sentence, Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval said the one who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when her mother, who later died, was admitted in a hospital. The court in the order...
05:21 AM, May 18, 2013
Toronto: After adapting Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' for the big screen, Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta is working on a script based on Shilpi Somaya Gowda's novel 'Secret Daughter' about how two families are bound by an adoption. Mehta is said to be busy penning the script for producers Jody Colero of Silent Joe Inc. and Hussain Amarshi of Mongrel Media, reports hollywoodreporter.com. 'Secret Daughter' tells the story of two families,...
05:31 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not the domestic help, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has said, while expressing concern over instances of brides being burnt and tortured in the country. The top court said a bride must be respected in her matrimonial home as it "reflects the sensitivity of a civilised society."...
07:59 PM, May 15, 2013
Gurdaspur: In a shocking incident, a step-father allegedly married his minor daughter after forcibly taking her in Jammu on the pretext of getting her 'Aadhar' card. The incident came to light when the girl's mother, lodged a complaint against her husband, Pardeep Malik, following which police conducted raid at his house in Shahzada colony in Gurdaspur and rescued the girl, police said on Saturday. However, the accused managed to escape...
02:12 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Music composer AR Rahman has expressed his happiness over his daughter's mention worthy success in class 12th exams. He tweets, "This is a first in the family. My daughter Khatija excels in studies and scores 94% in her 12th public exams." AR Rahman is married to Saira Banu and has three daughters Khatija, Rahima and Ameen. All of Rahman's daughters are interested in music and two of them...
06:49 PM, May 10, 2013
Bikaner: There were reports that Saif Ali Khan's daughter Sara will soon enter filmdom and her aunt Soha admits that her niece has the potential, but right now they want her to complete her studies. Sara is Saif and his ex-wife, actress Amrita Singh's daughter. "Sara is very smart. She is studying in college in America. She is very confident and super smart. She even dances very well. Right now,...
09:53 AM, May 07, 2013
Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...
12:40 AM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: A three-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father on Thursday, after he "suspected" his wife's 'fidelity' in the Mancherial town of Adilabad district, the police said. After allegedly throwing the baby girl Harini, into a water tank on Ashok Road in Mancherial, her father C Krishna, a painter, initially claimed that she had been "abducted". "After the incident he reported the matter to his relatives and police. However,...
02:11 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident of rape in the national capital, a man has been arrested for repeatedly raping his eight-year-old daughter, police said on Friday. According to police, the accused, 46, works as a welder and lived in West Delhi's Tilak Nagar area. He had been sexually and physically assaulting his daughter for over two months. She was also denied regular meals during this period. The incident...
02:20 AM, Apr 27, 2013
A lot of books have been written about the Second World War by now. More so from the perspective of the Holocaust and nothing else. At times, you also think that you have read it all. After all, how different can one story be from the other? I have always thought that or rather used to. To read enough all the time about a particular incident does not make you...
03:44 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Rohtak: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step daughter for over a year, police said in Rohtak on Friday. Three women, including mother of the victim and a doctor, have also been booked by police on charges of getting the victim's abortion done in a private hospital located at Sunariya Chowk in Rohtak, police said. The shocking case came to light when a police team carried...
03:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Los Angeles: Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has revealed that the late King of Pop was a loving and supportive father, and that she misses him everyday. The 15-year-old said her father, who died in June 2009 after being given a lethal dose of Propofol by his doctor, Conrad Murray, had a very supportive and loving influence on her, as well as by her brothers Prince Michael, 16, and Blanket, 11....
10:41 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Thane: Police on Sunday arrested a 42-year-old father for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter and killing her in Tembivili village of the district. The accused, Kashinath Varku Hatal has been booked under sections 376, 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Bhiwandi division Police Inspector KR Khairnar said. According to the police, Hatal was staying with his minor daughter, his second wife and her daughter in the village....
01:17 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Patna: A Bihar government official was arrested on Saturday for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, police said. Akhilesh Kumar, a senior deputy collector, was arrested in Patna following a complaint lodged by his wife that he repeatedly raped his daughter. More details are awaited. ...
06:07 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: A 14-year-old girl has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her father and his friend in Kanjhawla area of the national capital, police said on Sunday. The victim's father has been arrested while a hunt is on to nab the other accused, police said. The incident came to light when the girl approached police, they said. The victim was taken to a government hospital for medical examination...
02:15 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Former Odisha Minister Raghunath Mohanty's daughter-in-law said that her husband's family subjected her to dowry torture, demanded a Scorpio car and Rs 25 lakhs in cash. ...
07:38 PM, Mar 30, 2013
A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his four-year-old daughter in Bhopal. The news comes as the government is grappling to bring a tougher anti-rape law into existence. ...
08:30 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A successful practising cardiologist in England, Dr Niharica Raizada, grand-daughter of legendary musician O P Nayyar, has debuted in a hit Bengali romantic comedy 'Damadol' with an item number. ...
01:11 PM, Mar 06, 2013
